Posts by Duncan Dobie
Brent McCarty’s Macon County Monster
It was a little after 4 p.m. on Thursday, November 11 when Brent McCarty of Ellaville finally settled down in his 14-foot box stand and prepared to hunt until dark. Brent was dead tired. He had covered a lot of miles during the past 24 hours. Now that he was finally in the woods, the…
Read MoreRecord Cobb County Bow Buck Turns Out To Be A Road Kill
A record buck alleged to have been taken by a bowhunter in west Cobb County on Nov. 29, was in fact the victim of a collision with a car. On Monday, Nov. 29, 1999, shortly before noon, I received a call from Jackie White, a taxidermist who operates Sweetwater Taxidermy on Bankhead Highway in Mableton.…
Read MoreSkeeter Grant’s 1969 Monroe County Non-Typical
It was early November 1969. Give or take a few days, it was unquestionably the best week of the year to be chasing rutting whitetails in the deer woods of central Georgia. As usual, Skeeter and Glenda Grant of Flovilla were out attempting to do that very thing. They were hunting on a small tract…
Read MoreAbe Northcutt’s 1958 Jones County Giant Buck
What does Mr. Abe A. Northcutt, of Eatonton, have in common with the late, great Fred Bear? For starters, at a spry 80 years of age, “Mr. Abe,” as his friends fondly call him, is an avid whitetail hunter who has been chasing Piedmont bucks for nearly 40 years. Mr. Abe started hunting deer in…
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